More countries hoping to copy Spain's organ-donation success

MH Spooner - 2003 - Can Med Assoc
Results from the CMA's 2003 Physician Resource Questionnaire (PRQ) indicate that a third
of Canadian physicians are now using a personal digital assistant (PDA) or wireless device …

Critical analysis of the low organ donation rates in Chile

FG Cohens, FV Cid, RA Droguett… - Revista medica de …, 2020 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The highest organ donation rate in Chile was 10 donors per million population in 2017,
which is low compared with other countries. Local experts attribute the low rate to …

Medical donations are not always free: an assessment of compliance of medicine and medical device donations with World Health Organization guidelines (2009 …

S McDonald, A Fabbri, L Parker, J Williams… - International …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Medicine and medical device donations have the potential to improve access to healthcare
in some of the poorest parts of the world, but can do more harm than good. World Health …

Increasing organ donor registration in a primary care clinic

N Natt, E Klar, I Cheung, P Matharu… - BMJ Open …, 2017 - bmjopenquality.bmj.com
Only 30% of Ontarians are registered organ donors in spite of the vast unmet need for organ
donations in Ontario, Canada. The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) initiative was to …

More than half of MDs under age 35 now using PDAs

S Martin - Cmaj, 2003 - Can Med Assoc
Results from the CMA's 2003 Physician Resource Questionnaire (PRQ) indicate that a third
of Canadian physicians are now using a personal digital assistant (PDA) or wireless device …

Resource barriers to the facilitation of organ and tissue donation reported by Australian emergency clinicians

CH Marck, GA Jelinek, SL Neate… - Australian Health …, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
Objective. To explore emergency department clinicians' perceived resource barriers to
facilitating organ and tissue donation (OTD). Methods. A cross-sectional national online …

Analysis of organ donation for transplantation in Chile during 2017

FG Fuenzalida, FG Cohens - Revista medica de Chile, 2018 - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background In October 2016, television stations began a campaign to increase organ
donation rates. During the months that followed, a sustained increase in donation rate was …

Health care professionals: what do they know about organ donation?

TP Castellana, NM Burralló… - Progress in …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Background Although donor detection is influenced by the legal system and family refusal,
underreporting due to erroneous knowledge of donation criteria and a lack of familiarity with …

A “smarter” way to recruit organ donors?

K Connor, R Brady, L Marson - Transplantation, 2014 - journals.lww.com
By 2015, 500 million people are pro-jected to own a smartphone (mobile devices with
advanced operating system software)(1). Healthcare-related downloadable software …

Spain's record organ donations: mining moral conviction

C Gil-Díaz - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2009 - cambridge.org
Over the past 20 years, organ donations in Spain have soared from modest numbers to the
highest rate in the world. In the brief span between 1998 and 2005, donation rates have …